Javier Romero
Dr. Felipe
English Comp 3
August 13, 2015 The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh shows realities between the unruly natural world and civilized Mesopotamia. This epic is the journey of a warrior, Gilgamesh, filled with great hubris, as he searches for the key to immortality. Gilgamesh is the king of Uruk but is seen more like a overpowering tyrant than a kind leader to his people. The gods send a wild man, Enkidu, as a buffer to Gilgamesh’s hubris. When Enkidu dies he is overwhelmed with the fear of death, and sets on a journey to find the key to immortality. In the end of Gilgamesh’s perilous journey, Gilgamesh realizes that he was not made to be immortal and learns to accept his ordained destiny. Through the character …show more content…
The author states that“ There was no withstanding the aura or power of the /Wild Ox Gilgamesh. Neither the father’s son/Nor the wife of the noble; neither the mothers daughter/Nor the warrior’s bride was safe. The old men said:/“ is this the shepherd of the people? Is this/the wise protector of the people?”” (Gilgamesh, 4) In this passage the author compares Gilgamesh to a “wild ox” this metaphor is used to emphasize his great strength. He also repeats the words “Nor” and “Neither” to really highlight that no one in the city could overpower his great hubris. The function of this passage serves to help develop Gilgamesh character and to really exhibit the contrast we see in the change in his character from the beginning of the poem to the …show more content…
As ocean mist blows over the land from the waters./so the midst of sleep comes over the eyes of the king.”/The wife of Utnapishtim answered him:/“Touch and awaken him so that he may/return in safety to his native city,/entering through the gate of his departure.”/But Utnapishtim said “Man is deceitful/Therefore he will deceit us for every day,/as he lies sleeping, you must bake a wafer/and place the wafer near him, making a mark/upon the nearly wall for everyday/this hero sleeps who seeks eternal life.”/She baked a wafer everyday, of bread,/for every day that Gilgamesh lay sleeping./The first as dry as dust;the second/only less so than the first; the third/was soggy and rotten; the fourth water was white/in the crust; there were spots of mold on the fifth;/the sixth wafer looked almost as if it was fresh;/and the seventh—Gilgamesh stated to wake
Dr. Felipe
English Comp 3
August 13, 2015 The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh shows realities between the unruly natural world and civilized Mesopotamia. This epic is the journey of a warrior, Gilgamesh, filled with great hubris, as he searches for the key to immortality. Gilgamesh is the king of Uruk but is seen more like a overpowering tyrant than a kind leader to his people. The gods send a wild man, Enkidu, as a buffer to Gilgamesh’s hubris. When Enkidu dies he is overwhelmed with the fear of death, and sets on a journey to find the key to immortality. In the end of Gilgamesh’s perilous journey, Gilgamesh realizes that he was not made to be immortal and learns to accept his ordained destiny. Through the character …show more content…
The author states that“ There was no withstanding the aura or power of the /Wild Ox Gilgamesh. Neither the father’s son/Nor the wife of the noble; neither the mothers daughter/Nor the warrior’s bride was safe. The old men said:/“ is this the shepherd of the people? Is this/the wise protector of the people?”” (Gilgamesh, 4) In this passage the author compares Gilgamesh to a “wild ox” this metaphor is used to emphasize his great strength. He also repeats the words “Nor” and “Neither” to really highlight that no one in the city could overpower his great hubris. The function of this passage serves to help develop Gilgamesh character and to really exhibit the contrast we see in the change in his character from the beginning of the poem to the …show more content…
As ocean mist blows over the land from the waters./so the midst of sleep comes over the eyes of the king.”/The wife of Utnapishtim answered him:/“Touch and awaken him so that he may/return in safety to his native city,/entering through the gate of his departure.”/But Utnapishtim said “Man is deceitful/Therefore he will deceit us for every day,/as he lies sleeping, you must bake a wafer/and place the wafer near him, making a mark/upon the nearly wall for everyday/this hero sleeps who seeks eternal life.”/She baked a wafer everyday, of bread,/for every day that Gilgamesh lay sleeping./The first as dry as dust;the second/only less so than the first; the third/was soggy and rotten; the fourth water was white/in the crust; there were spots of mold on the fifth;/the sixth wafer looked almost as if it was fresh;/and the seventh—Gilgamesh stated to wake